Writing For A Purpose Upper Primary Program (Available to Order)

Writing for a Purpose is a writing program that explicitly guides students as they apply their English knowledge, skills and understanding to create print and digital texts for meaningful, cross-curricular purposes.

Teacher Resource Book

• Unit overviews and planners
• Assessment, reflection and cross-curricular blackline masters
• Student record sheets
• Blackline master worksheets

CD Rom Interactive Whiteboard

• Modelling of each step in the writing process
• Exemplars and graphic organisers
• PDFs of writing cards
• Interactive text type exemplars for informative, imaginative and persuasive texts

Student Writing Cards

• Units aligned to Australian Curriculum Learning Areas
• Designed to develop, apply and assess writing skills in the context of relevant cross-curricular tasks, providing a connected curriculum approach
• Each task has a focus on a specific informative, imaginative or persuasive text purpose
• Each card is designed to support and guide students with handy hints, text type organisation and features, checklists, and a variety of assessment rubrics
• Step-by-step instructions with each task for whole-class, small group or independent work
• Each unit includes presentation ideas to further engage the audience